The temple and the forum
Subtitle: the American museum and cultural authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman
By: Les Harrison
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780817315634
Subjects: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, -- 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation; Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, -- 1811-1896 -- Criticism and interpretation; Whitman, Walt, -- 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Museums -- Philosophy; Museums -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Museums -- Social aspects -- United States; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-265) and index
Table of contents: title: Forums and temples: the museum as representational site; title: "The emptiness of picture galleries": Hawthorne's interrogation of cultural authority in the commercial marketplace; title: "For unless you own the whale": Melville's cultural interregnum; title: "Arguing with pictures": constructing Uncle Tom's cabin on the New York stage; title: Walt Whitman's specimens of democracy